Posted on 08/20/2002 7:15:06 AM PDT by SheLion
JOIN US: PROTEST RALLY!
Monday, August 26th at 6PM at City Hall (South End)
Led by Artist Scott LoBaido, 4th generation New Yorker
Supported by NYC C.L.A.S.H.
" A TRUE REVOLUTION "
Click here for a message from Scott LoBaido
Mayor Bloomberg has decided to supercede the city council's proposals to ban smoking in NYC with a totalitarian one of his own, backed up by his own hand-picked gestapo, Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden and his agents.
On Monday, August 12th, the mayor made his proposal public --
TO BAN SMOKERS EVERYWHERE IN NYC
(NY Times Reports: Bloomberg Seeks to Ban Smoking in Every Restaurant and Bar)
THE ANTI-SMOKER OPERATIVES ARE NOW REPORTING THAT
BEACHES AND PARKS
WILL BE NEXT!
WHO'S RUNNING THIS CITY?!?
(NY Post Reports: Beach Butt Ban )
In his acceptance speech on Nov. 6th, 2001, Bloomberg said the following:
"We must put aside anything that divides us. This is NY and it's going to be for all New Yorkers."...
"...Except for those 'stupid' and 'crazy' smokers."
(By the way, someone has started a lawsuit campaign over those remarks. See Sue Bloomberg for details.)
MAYOR BLOOMBERG WAS ELECTED TO REPRESENT ALL THE PEOPLE IN NYC. THE CITY DOES NOT REPRESENT MAYOR BLOOMBERG.
Smokers have been the only ones burdened in this city to sustain it financially with an exorbitant tax increase meant to fill the coffers and punish us at the same time. Only sadists kick people some more once they've already been knocked down.
If we can't smoke in public why should we pay the public's taxes?! It is smokers' money that nows pays for the upkeep of public places and continuing services. Where else do you pay for something and are denied access at the same time?
And don't hand us that line about how the smokers wouldn't be banned. In relation, in 1969 when gays were told they couldn't assemble in places where the owners were happy to serve them, gays weren't banned either. What was forbidden was acting gay, so this is really the same abuse.
Who owns the restaurants and bars anyway?? It is certainly not city-owned or public property. It is PRIVATE PROPERTY where the owner ALLOWS the public to enter.
Whether you smoke or not, we call on all defenders of democracy to join us in denouncing such government infringement on private property rights. It is NOT a health issue, it's a freedom of choice issue.
Allow them to discriminate against one segment of society and they will come for you next.
When the health-Nazis came for the smokers,
I was not a smoker,
therefore, I was not concerned.
And when the health-Nazis attacked the obese,
I was not obese,
therefore, I was not concerned.
And when the health-Nazis attacked the drinkers and the alcohol industry,
I was not a drinker,
therefore I was not concerned.
Then, the health-Nazis attacked me and the freedom loving Americans who remained,
and there was nobody left to be concerned.
Under Bloomberg's plan, smokers who break the law may be fined $10 to $100 or be jailed up to 30 days [Source: Associated Press; Aug. 16, 2002 ]
MAYOR BLOOMBERG WILL HAVE YOU ARRESTED FOR.... SMOKING!!
We know, we know, no need to enlighten us.
Of course they are, people are circumventing the taxes, if you believe anything else........ you are indeed naive.
Amen!
Of course it is in favor of smoking.Why else would you have a rally like this? I understand why people want to fight this on a civil rights point of view, but I find the argument pretty cut and dry that if smoking is to be banned in places of work, bars and restaurants are indeed places of work.
metesky, it's the saddest thing: you know I started a list of the anti-smokers in Free Republic a few months back.
There are 33 on the list to date. And we wonder how we got RINO's in office??!!
Gabz can answer for herself, but I want to tell you something:
When you leave the confines of your home, the world is NOT according to stanz! Got that?
One more thing: this should be up to the individual business owner to make bars/restaurants non-smoking or sections to accommodate the smoker! It should NOT be left to the Government. Is that what you want? Government intervention in everything we do?
There are plenty of smoke free places where you can go and enjoy yourself. The people who choose to smoke ALSO want to keep the places that accommodate us. Isn't that simple?
Ahhhhh.......there we have it! Now we know on which side you sit!
May I, Massa stanz? Thank you, Massa stanz. (tugging forelock and avoiding eye contact with the great and benevolent Massa stanz)
Sorry, pal - if you want a non-smoking bar or restaurant talk to the owner or better yet OPEN YOUR OWN business and leave the business decisions to the owners of other establishment.
As Orwell was always saying, corrupt language leads to corrupt thought.
1. New York City owns and has no restaurants or bars. Private citizens own their bars and restaurants. It is private property, owned by private people that in most, but not all cases are open to the public.
If you were clearheaded, or honest, you would of said you didn't like going into someones business if they are not going to operate it they way you like it to. As is your right. But they are free to ignore your wants, likes, or anything else about you. What you really want is a third party, in this case government, forcing the party with a civil disagreement with you, to be criminalized. Pathetic pantywaistism.
But your not a joke.........your just sad.........
In your own words, this is a civil rights rally. I support the right of a property owner to do as he wishes.
If I "support[ed] smoking" the way I support the right to keep and bear arms, I'd be teaching kids how to smoke. Rest assured, I don't do that. Neither do any of the smokers I know.
Again, for the benefit of any people, smoking or otherwise, that happen to be reading this thread, this is not a rally in support of any kind of tobacco consumption, despite what some may be saying.
That is exactly the point - this is about property rights and rights of business owners to make certain business decisions.
Thank you.
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